Tampines pull clear of pack

Tampines Rovers pull clear 7 points of the pack as they beat Hougang United 3-2 and they still have a game in hand as the destiny of the championship looked to be well in their hands.

In a show of the championship form, Liam Shotton had given the Cheetahs a shock lead but by half time with goals from Shaiful Esah and Khairul Amri they were ahead.

Igor Cerina level thing up in the second period but leaders and champions Tampines refused to settle for a point and with 8 minutes to go, a Kunihiro Yamashita goal saw them grabbed all 3 points.

And that is how championship are won.

In other games, DPMM Brunei beat Geylang International 1-0 and Warriors FC drew 0-0 with Courts Young Lions

Rosmin Kamis scored for the Brunei side.

Hougang United
Fadhil Salim (GK), Lau Meng Meng (C), Shahir Hamzah, Igor Cerina, Fazly Hasan, Nurhilmi Jasni (Fairoz Hasan 46'), Azhar Sairudin (Hasree Zais 87'), Mamadou Diallo, Fazli Jaffar, Liam Shotton, Jerome Baker

Tampines Rovers
Ridhuan Barudin (GK), Jufri Taha, Kunihiro Yamashita, Seiji Kaneko, Shaiful Esah, Fahrudin Mustafic (C), Vitor Ladeiras (Firdaus Kasman 78'), Shahdan Sulaiman, Ahmed Fahmie (Khairul Amri 32'), Jamil Ali (Diogo Caramelo 78'), Aleksandar Duric

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Geylang International
Takuma Ito (GK), Khairulnizam Jumahat, Duncan Elias (Andrew Tan 66'), Norihiro Kawakami, Jalal, Yasir Hanapi (C), Stefan Milojevic, Taufiq Ghani, Basil Teo, Shotaro Ihata (Nazirul Islam), Wahyudi Abd Wahid

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Courts Young Lions
Syazwan Buhari (GK), Al-Qaasimy Rahman, Afiq Yunos, Raihan Rahman (C), Anumanthan Kumar, Stanely Ng (Nur Ridho 66'), Sahil Suhaimi, Farhan Rahmat (Tajeli Salamat 70'), Afiq Noor, Iqbal Hamid Hussain (Ignatius Ang 87'), Sherif El-Masri

Warriors FC
Hassan Sunny (GK), Kazuyuki Toda, Abdil Qaiyyim, Tatsuro Inui, Shimpei Sakurada (Shukor Zailan 79'), Mislav Karoglan, Sufian Anuar (Hafsyar Farkhan 66'), Marin Vidosevic, Jeremy Chiang, Daniel Bennett (C), Shi Jiayi (Erwan Gunawan 52')